KURRAWA SURF LIFE SAVING CLUB

After multiple renovations, the Kurrawa Surf Life Saving Club wanted to enhance its reputation as Australia’s premier Surf Club. They embarked on building a new facility which reflected not only the Club’s status within the surfing community, but capitalised on its location on one of Australia’s best beaches.

The building contains both Surf Club facilities and a supporters club comprising a 600 seat restaurant, café, bar and gaming lounge. The client’s brief was for bold and visionary architecture which still maintained references to its functional use as a local Surf Life Saving Club.

The design concepts sought to find an identity balancing the building’s dual civic and recreational functions – a place where the city meets the beach. Key to the design was a generous, publicly accessible and civic-scaled, outdoor room. This expansive, sculpted roof with a dynamic uplit sunscreen contributes to both the casual beach culture and lively Broadbeach street atmosphere.